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Martin Scorsese
Scorsese at the Tribeca Film Festival, 2007
Born	Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese November 17, 1942 (1942-11-17) (age 66) New York, New York, United States
Occupation	film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
Years active	1963–present
Spouse(s)	Laraine Brennan (1965–1971) Julia Cameron (1975–1977) Isabella Rossellini (1979–1983) Barbara De Fina (1985–1991) Helen Morris (1999–present)
Awards won Academy Awards Best Director 2006 The Departed BAFTA Awards Best Direction 1990 GoodFellas Best Film 1990 GoodFellas Best Adapted Screenplay 1990 GoodFellas César Awards Honorary César 2000 Lifetime Achievement Golden Globe Awards Best Director - Motion Picture 2002 Gangs of New York 2006 The Departed Grammy Awards Best Long Form Music Video 2006 No Direction Home Other awards Golden Palm - Cannes Film Festival 1976 Taxi Driver Best Director Award - Cannes Film Festival 1986 After Hours Venice Silver Lion for Best Director 1990 Goodfellas NYFCC Award for Best Director 1990 GoodFellas 2006 The Departed AFI Life Achievement Award 1997 Lifetime Achievement

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter, film producer, and historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock.

Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption,^[1] machismo, and the violence endemic to American society. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era, directing landmark films such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas; all of which he collaborated on with actor Robert De Niro. ^[2] He won the Academy Award for "Best Director" for The Departed and earned an MFA in film directing from NYU's School of the Arts.

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